DOORS: The hive-like society

Jeff Veyera · 26 Jan 2003, 17:51 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: "Jeff Veyera" <teflon93 at cox.net>
Subject: RE: (urth) DOORS: The hive-like society
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:51:23 -0800
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Mantis-

I read TAD a little differently.

I ascribe women's hatred of the dolls to hatred of competition.  In
Otherworld, competition is literally killer.  In our world, a woman
typically competes against other women for the affections of one man.  In
Otherworld, where copulation equals death for the male, she must not only
compete with the other unattached women, but ALL women who wish to have a
child.  On top of this, men, fearing death, have taken to Goddess worship
and the safe companionship of dolls to fill the void typically filled by
women.  Is it any wonder they'd be so angry at the very sight of a doll?

I also wonder whether it is ejaculation or intercourse with a woman which
brings on death.  I suspect the latter, or one nocturnal emission would be
the end of civilization.

This would also lend more strength to my argument above, and to your notion
that North might be homosexual.  It would certainly follow in any society
where heterosexual sex meant death that a large number might prefer the
alternative.

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